I have a few production SQL Server instances and I get around 100 deadlock alert emails a day (up to 100 for one server, 150 in total).
Is this a problem I should investigate? How many deadlocks are ...

Using MySQL 5.6.17. I have a table with an INSERT trigger that reads values from that table and 4 other tables, combines the results and writes that to a sixth table. Ever since I added this trigger, ...

I am having problems with frequent deadlocks on a subscription database.
I am considering enabling the snapshot isolation level for that database.
I am aware that there is an overhead on the tempDb ...

I see that I can view the latest deadlock in mysql/innodb, but is there a way to view past deadlocks? We have two deadlock issues, one being important and the other not. The less important deadlock ...

Can someone explain this deadlock to me? It seems as if there are 2 inserts happening within milliseconds of each other with the same Primary Key. I'm not sure how this can cause a deadlock. At most a ...

As was asked on stackoverflow but then for MySQL, I was wondering how this works in PostgreSQL. How many rows get locked when I do a "FOR UPDATE" in combination with a "LIMIT", a "ORDER BY" and some ...

I am trying to analyze randomly occurring deadlock problems on an SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The deadlocks occur in very rare cases when SSRS tries to access one of 5 different stored procedures.
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What could be the reason behind 2 inserts causing a deadlock? Here is what I get from log file:
*** (1) TRANSACTION:
TRANSACTION 6CA06B9, ACTIVE 6 sec inserting
mysql tables in use 1, locked 1
LOCK ...

I normally hang around in StackOverflow but I think this issue is better suited here.
I've built an application in C#.NET that uses MySql as a database.
My application inserts and updates data in the ...

I co-maintain a high traffic site similar to StackExchange. It runs MySQL 5.1 (working on replacing it with MySQL 5.5 or MariaDB). All our tables are InnoDB. MySQL goes down a couple of times a day. ...